Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story, "The Dilemmas of Power" [Aug. 29], contains a garbled paragraph that is misleading and embarrassing to me and my company. Observations about the alleged harmful effects of fossil-fuel burning on public health appear" to be erroneously attributed to me. You should correct the record...
...effect is to raise the question: Is the Administration pulling back from the scheduled pace of desegregation? The rhetoric, to be sure, remains pro-civil rights, and in some respects the Administration has been both progressive and innovative. Finch, earlier thought of as the Cabinet liberal, may yet prove correct when he promises that the Administration will maintain pro-integration pressure. For now, however, the signs point to submission to a Southern political strategy that demands placating whites at the expense of immediate integration...
Last week, as the first phase of the rock analysis neared completion in Houston's Lunar Receiving Lab, it was Urey's young critics who seemed to have been wrong. Though they were correct in saying that the samples gathered up in the Sea of Tranquillity had once been molten rock, they appear to have been far off the mark in estimating their age. The rocks were not several hundred million years old, as many geologists had speculated, but at least 3.1 billion years...
President Nixon has publicly assured banks that the legislation will pass; since it is retroactive, he has urged them to proceed with loans as if the bill were law. Even if the President's prediction is correct, countless students will suffer financial and educational losses from the delay, especially incoming freshmen who are applying for loans for the first time. If the President is wrong and the legislation is not passed, HEW officials conservatively estimate that at least 225,000 students will be denied up to $200 million in loans...
...American Heritage Publishing Co. has steered a canny middle course. To preserve an elegance of sorts, it established a new kind of court: a panel of 104 reasonably literate Americans -including writers, scholars, editors and a U.S. Senator-who spent the past four years judging correct word usage for American Heritage's forthcoming dictionary, which will be published jointly with Houghton Mifflin Co. next month. Polled by mail on lists of questionable words, the panelists reached a rough consensus that will be tabulated in the dictionary text. Whatever the final result, the polling process was a Gallup through contemporary...